Inactive Byuu / byuu_nyan / setsunakun0 / Near / David Ginder - "Non-binary" furry programmer who wrote a Super Nintendo emulator, tried to blackmail Null into removing his thread, and is probably actually dead lol

[Two Dollars]

I didn't know this domain was byuu's property, it was renewed a few months ago (2024-06-12 https://www.whois.com/whois/romhacking.net)

even if the domain is set on auto-renew, a man who died years ago can't have any active bank account by now, so there is no way the owner of the domain could have died years ago.

The fuck are you talking about? When did I say it was owned by Byuu?

 

[AssignedEva]

IIRC the gov site that lists all americans who died oversees has never listed byuu name

"IIRC" - you don't recall correctly because, as this has been pointed out, it doesn't list names.
Null received this document bundle and while he was trying to verify it with the State Department @Big Bang obtained a copy of the death notification, having openly stated they were filing an FOIA months earlier.

The document bundle has corroborating information across a variety of sources, including things that weren't given much credit at the time (e.g. Sobodash's comments around Byuu's husband's struggle with death admin) and names a large number of verifiably real people (from notaries in Delaware to law offices in Japan). It spans 102 pages and contains scans of copies of real Japanese forms

So you're suggesting that multiple people were able to forge a bilingual hundred page document bundle that involved having to research over 30 obscure people to make a credible case while matching the State Departent's FOIA logs to 2023-ICFO-17211 Simohamed Benbattouche (before said logs had been public) purely because you found a twitter account of an autistic transgender furry programmer (and you think that programmers being furry and transgender and into emulators is somehow novel)?

I think there's an apartment block in Arakawa ward you should consider moving to...

 

[Useful_Mistake]

and since I've just told you an image is not a proof, here is the gov source where you can verify this image is legit : https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...le-abroad/death-abroad1/death-statistics.html

Well, go on then. Burden's on you. So, put up, or shut up.

 

[DavidS877]

how is wasting hours of my time needed to prove an internet image can be forged ?


yes they do, what the fuck is wrong with you guys, why do you keep making shit up, are you all mentally unhinged ?

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and since I've just told you an image is not a proof, here is the gov source where you can verify this image is legit : https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...le-abroad/death-abroad1/death-statistics.html

Those aren't names you stupid fuck, those are addresses.

 

[Mr. 0]

we already knew @byuu wasn't actually dead

he's just SLEEPING, in the suicide forests, waiting for the paul brothers to show up with a camera so he can go viral for advertising the next version of bsnes (that plays 1 frame faster than the last one)

 

[Hillary Clinton's Ass]

yes they do, what the fuck is wrong with you guys, why do you keep making shit up, are you all mentally unhinged ?

Spoiler

and since I've just told you an image is not a proof, here is the gov source where you can verify this image is legit : https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...le-abroad/death-abroad1/death-statistics.html

None of what you listed there are the names of the deceased, those are addresses, you dense motherfucker.

If you're going to bait people at least make it entertaining or somewhat believable.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

none of those two posts provide any way to verify the image has a legit source, it's not even worth reading what those documents say. how can you be fooled so easily?

the only legit source is docs we can be retrieved directly from goverment source. IIRC the gov site that lists all americans who died oversees has never listed byuu name. that's the only legit proof we have and it says he isn't dead.


I didn't know this domain was byuu's property, it was renewed a few months ago (2024-06-12 https://www.whois.com/whois/romhacking.net)

even if the domain is set on auto-renew, a man who died years ago can't have any active bank account by now, so there is no way the owner of the domain could have died years ago.

You should die

 

[byuu isn't deaded]

ok braindead retards, I show you an active profile of a transgender furry who also happen to own byuu's emulator github and you think it's just a coincidence.

and like any dumbfuck low-life you'd ather trust an internet image which source can not be verified

no wonder byuu was easily able to fool the bunch of mentally crippled retards you are.
I'm done here, not gonna waste any more second arguing with a bunch of low-lifes

 

[Nobody Important]

Wasn't the whole point of Byuu's bugout that all the other furry trans emulator programmers had cut ties with him?

 

[Devout Muslim]

There are still two things which sit unresolved in my mind.

The first is that as I see it, there is still no authoritative or official sources for anything. Even the FOIA documents are only alleged to be authentic. They trade only on the fact that they appear to be authentic.

The second relates to the paucity of information a) definitively linking DKG to Byuu and b) definitively showing that DKG has passed away. I think it’s reasonable to assume a) is true, given the alternative is that Byuu was a friend of DKG in real life and conveniently shared some biographical details (namely his location). The only people realistically who could confirm if Byuu is DKG are those who interacted with him via eBay or in the trading of ROMs. For instance, he would have had to sign his real name when sending ROMs back to the German collector. I spent quite a bit of time looking through PTs Steam profile and his friends list. He used to be quite active on DayZ, so I find it hard to imagine that he didn’t also play with his lover, DKG. I wasn’t able to definitely identify DKGs Steam account nor anything linking him or any of his friends to Byuu or trans furries. There was somebody who passed away within about a year prior to Byuu which inclines me to a skitzo theory that Byuu wasn’t DKG. But also there were a few private accounts which could have been his, so who knows. There was also an official Byuu steam account which was nuked around the time of Byuus passing so no info there.

 

[Null]

ok braindead retards, I show you an active profile of a transgender furry who also happen to own byuu's emulator github and you think it's just a coincidence.

and like any dumbfuck low-life you'd ather trust an internet image which source can not be verified

no wonder byuu was easily able to fool the bunch of mentally crippled retards you are.
I'm done here, not gonna waste any more second arguing with a bunch of low-lifes

retard, we have documents received by FOIA from the Department of State.

 

[AssignedEva]

The first is that as I see it, there is still no authoritative or official sources for anything. Even the FOIA documents are only alleged to be authentic. They trade only on the fact that they appear to be authentic.

The very first page of the FOIA is a covering letter

Something that was not available to Null at the time was the log of FOIAs in the relevant timeframe. This is now publicly available from the US State Department.

You can see that a Benbattouche (here named as Mhedi, but there's a different Excel spreadsheet that references Simohamed Benbattouche - this person is unknown but appears to file a lot of FOIAs) filed an FOIA in November 2022 relating to David Kirk Ginder. This was returned in December 2022, and on the same day an FOIA with the same reference number of F-2023-03110 as this document bundle was lodged - and was returned in October 2023. Around this time is when Null received the FOIA.

Separately, back in 2021 @Big Bang began liasing with the US Department of State's Vital Records section. They were incredibly slow to respond and stated that no death notification would be on their records until David's deceased spouse had spoken to the US Embassy in Japan to complete the Consular Report of Death Abroad, and David's husband was not good at dealing with Japanese bureaucracy. Eventually Big Bang was able to obtain a copy of the death certificate and shared it, which then prompted Null to share the FOIA he'd received months prior.

So we know that Simohamed Benbattouche raised an FOIA about David Ginder. We know when that initial one was returned, he then filed another FOIA on the same day that has the same reference number of this document bundle. This would strongly suggest that the FOIA was also about David Ginder - and as these reference numbers weren't public at the time of this file being sent to Null, that it's extremely likely that this is indeed genuine. Separately we have another person who has obtained what appears to be a genuine document from the US Stage Department, including an embossed seal, that corroborates details of the FOIA bundle (such as the ward in Tokyo that David Ginder was found, or that the passport was returned to his husband).

The second relates to the paucity of information a) definitively linking DKG to Byuu and b) definitively showing that DKG has passed away. I think it’s reasonable to assume a) is true, given the alternative is that Byuu was a friend of DKG in real life and conveniently shared some biographical details (namely his location). The only people realistically who could confirm if Byuu is DKG are those who interacted with him via eBay or in the trading of ROMs. For instance, he would have had to sign his real name when sending ROMs back to the German collector. I spent quite a bit of time looking through PTs Steam profile and his friends list. He used to be quite active on DayZ, so I find it hard to imagine that he didn’t also play with his lover, DKG. I wasn’t able to definitely identify DKGs Steam account nor anything linking him or any of his friends to Byuu or trans furries. There was somebody who passed away within about a year prior to Byuu which inclines me to a skitzo theory that Byuu wasn’t DKG. But also there were a few private accounts which could have been his, so who knows. There was also an official Byuu steam account which was nuked around the time of Byuus passing so no info there.

He's been linked through photos he shared, including of his cat and of his house, and during the Byuuicide saga further confirmed that he was David Ginder by sharing corroborating information (specifically his business card, which yielded a phone number with an Ohio area code that further linked him back to his husband, plus recent photos that showed he was clearly the same guy as in the photos we had of David and his husband), that is also agreed by Derrick Sobodash. Byuu = David Ginder = Dead.

 

[Two Dollars]

ok braindead retards, I show you an active profile of a transgender furry who also happen to own byuu's emulator github and you think it's just a coincidence.

and like any dumbfuck low-life you'd ather trust an internet image which source can not be verified

no wonder byuu was easily able to fool the bunch of mentally crippled retards you are.
I'm done here, not gonna waste any more second arguing with a bunch of low-lifes

You seem surprised that a transgender furry would only trust his work to another transgender furry.

 

[Peru oso donas]

How much this guy is one of Hector's discord kittens trying to gay op that kiwifarms still believes Byuu didn't kill himself.

 

[Markass the Worst]

ok braindead retards, I show you an active profile of a transgender furry who also happen to own byuu's emulator github and you think it's just a coincidence.

Not only is it just a coincidence, it's entirely expected. If I knew I were going to die I would pass ownership of my possessions to other people too, including my programming projects. And again everybody in the emulator space is a transgender furry.

and like any dumbfuck low-life you'd ather trust an internet image which source can not be verified

Yeah, a government website can not be verified. Uh huh.

no wonder byuu was easily able to fool the bunch of mentally crippled retards you are.
I'm done here, not gonna waste any more second arguing with a bunch of low-lifes

Please follow in Byuu's footsteps.

 

[Big Bang]

The US Government doesn't issue death certificates from citizens abroad for fun. Byuu wasn't a special case that required obfuscation of his death (despite the investigation that was opened due to his illegal activity). His death certificate was validated by the US Government. Investigations thought he was still alive because there was still activity at his registered address. We were all surprised when the death certificate arrived. It goes to show the lack of vital communication between departments despite our attempts.

 

[Coolio55]

wanted to post this a few years ago but I couldn't make an account back then as the security was tightened after all the ddos crap on kiwi

anyway byuu is alive and here is his profile

https://github.com/XerTheSquirrel

my proof?
what are the fucking odds that we have a guy who :
--works on byuu's emulator (checked) : https://web.archive.org/web/20220818105544/https://github.com/orgs/ares-emulator/people
--pretends to be a girl (checked)
--has a fury avatar (checked) : https://web.archive.org/web/20221207051126/https://github.com/XerTheSquirrel/

Ya all so stupid for not figuring out on your own, ares emulator is byuu's life, obviously he wasn't going to let it go like that
All it took was check the peoples page of the ares emulator on github and you would have found byuu's new account in 5 seconds LMAO

Flash-ack to the Nova the Squirrel NES homebrew guy and me correctly predicting that he'd troon out.

 

[AnOminous]

We were all surprised when the death certificate arrived. It goes to show the lack of vital communication between departments despite our attempts.

It shows how broken the whole FOIA system is at the federal level that it took that long even in a case where they weren't being deliberately obstructionist.

 

[MissDrama]

I'm late to the party, but I wanted to share my 2 cents anyway. I was active and followed this story back during the COVID lockdown and got very invested in it. To read now that we have confirmation of everything that went on is liberating but also depressing. David's situation just shows what untreated mental illness, loneliness, and being chronically online can do to a person. A lot of people failed David in his real life.

Thank you, Big Bang, for requesting the FOIA.

And to anyone reading this right now who's having a hard time or is struggling: things do get better.

The internet isn't the real world. Log off. Live, and seek for help.

 

[Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank LTD.]

Byuu wasn't a special case that required obfuscation of his death (despite the investigation that was opened due to his illegal activity).

Was he actually in the process of getting Caponed by the IRS? I thought those were just rumors that they were about to audit the guy before he ran off to Japan.